Gang Week - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gang weekGang-week
Gang-week [fr. gangan, Sax., to go], the time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers-rogation week....
Gang flower
The common English milkwort Polygala vulgaris so called from blossoming in gang week...
Week
Week, in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition), the word 'week' has been described as meaning 'the cycle of seven days, recognized in the calendar of the Jews and thence adopted in the calendar of Christian, Moham-medan and various other peoples. A space of seven days, irrespective of the time from which it is reckoned. Seven days as a term for periodical payments (of wages, rent, or the like), or as a unit of reckoning for time of work or service'. In Webster's New World Dictionary (1962 Edition), the meaning of the word 'week' is given as 'a period of seven days, especially one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday; the hours or days of work in a seven-day period'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Third Edition), it is stated that '(1) though a week usually means any consecutive seven days, it will sometimes be interpreted to mean the ordinary notion of a week reckoning from Sunday to Sunday and (2) probably, a week usually means seven clear days'. A 'week' a...
chain gang
chain gang : a group of convicts chained together esp. to work outside a prison ...
gang
gang : a group of persons associating for antisocial and often criminal purposes and activities ...
Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867
Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867 (English) (30 & 31 Vict. c. 130). This Act, after reciting that in certain counties in England certain persons known as gangmasters hire children, young persons, and women, with a view to contracting with farmers and others for the execution on their lands of various kinds of agricultural work, enacts certain regulations to be observed by gangmasters, and requires them to obtain licences. Amended as to children by the (English) Agricultural Children Act, 1873, ante....
Terrorist gang
Terrorist gang, means any association, other then terrorist organisation, whether systematic or otherwise, which is concerned wife, or involved in, terrorist act. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(l)]...
Water-gang
Water-gang, a trench or course to carry a stream of water....
average weekly wage (aww)
average weekly wage (aww) The AWW is another method which may be utilized in calculating entitlement to wage loss benefits. The average earnings, by week, for a fixed period of time are calculated and wage loss benefits are computed according to that amount. ...
statewide average weekly wage (saww)
statewide average weekly wage (saww) The statewide average weekly wage is a computation of average wages paid to workers in a jurisdiction for a set period of time and is generally used to calculate the minimum, and maximum, amounts of workers' compensation benefits that an injured employee will be entitled to receive. ...
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